Logo for www.Chinesefilms.cn Last month, the Film Bureau of China launched www.chinesefilms.cn, its first English-language website...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai Karamay (dir. Xu Xin) Known as the “12/8/94 Incident,” a devastating fire broke out in the Karamay Friendship...

Danwei.org interviews Zhao Dayong, Chinese independent filmmaker and director of Street Life and Ghost Town (both distributed by...

Awards ceremony at Hong Kong International Film Festival (photo courtesy Lantern Films) The Hong Kong International Film Festival gave...

Memorial flowers left at Google's China headquarters (image source: The Shanghaist) On The China Beat, Ying Zhu and Bruce Robinson give a...

City of Life and Death (dir. Lu Chuan) Lu Chuan’s controversial Nanjing Massacre movie City of Life and Death picked up the Best Director...

Super, Girls! (dir. Jian Yi) This recent article on CNN caught our eye, as it deals with what may be an emerging next wave of the digital...

dGenerate Films' Kevin B. Lee (right) pays tribute to Jia Zhangke at the Museum of Modern Art On March 8 the Museum of Modern Art hosted...

This is the second part of a three-part essay by Zhang Xianmin on the state of contemporary Chinese cinema. Read Parts One and Two....

This is the second part of a three-part essay by Zhang Xianmin on the state of contemporary Chinese cinema. Read Part One. Part Three...

This is the first part of a three-part essay by Zhang Xianmin on the state of contemporary Chinese cinema. Parts two and three will be...

Zhang Xianmin (photo courtesy China Independent Film Festival) One of our key partners in China is Zhang Xianmin, who is a leading figure...

The essay certainly speaks on behalf of the types of films that we at dGenerate Films cherish, and it accounts for some of the reasons we...

In the past, with another film of ours that we showed at the Toronto Film Festival, the Chinese consulate did call up the director of the...

Soh ponders: While we get the bleak overtone, we see the perfectly attractive models and we’re amused by its accompanying surrealist art...

City of Life and Death (dir. Lu Chuan) The New York Times reports that the Film Forum, one of the leading specialty theaters in New York...

Fan Lixin, director of Last Train Home (Photo by Nan Chalat Noaker/Park Record) One of the most acclaimed films at this year’s Sundance...

Zhao Liang To commemorate Zhao Liang’s visit to the United States, we have translated a lengthy interview with Zhao, originally published...

Zhang Yimou “Film Director Battles For Soul of Chinese Cinema” is the provocative title of an NPR report on Zhang Yimou’s new release A...

Here are some choice excerpts from the interview. The full interview can be found at Offscreen. Offscreen: My first question is about...